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Something You Should Know

How to Make and Improve Friendships & Why English Can Get So Confusing

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“ I wish I got more emails!” – said no one ever. Many of us start the day wading through emails we wish we never got in the first place. This episode begins with some easy strategies to cut down on your email clutter and lighten the load of your inbox. Source: Kaitlin Sherwood author of Overcome Email Overload (https://amzn.to/3RBsKNW) For a million reasons you already know, friends are important. Yet we tend to have fewer friends today than in the past and some people have no one at all they could call a real friend. Dr. Marisa Franco is here to help. She is a recognized expert on friendship including how to make friends and how to keep them. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today, The New York Times and Scientific American. She is also author of the book Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Make and Keep Friends (https://amzn.to/3RuMm60) Marisa's website is : https://drmarisagfranco.com/ The English language is full of quirks and traps. For example: Is it further or farther? Do you lay down or lie down? Is it effect or affect? Joining me to answer these questions and explore other interesting ways English can trip you up is Ellen Jovin. She holds degrees from Harvard in German and UCLA in comparative literature, and she has studied twenty-five languages. Ellen is also author of the book, Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian (https://amzn.to/3cKpzo9) Ellen's website is: https://www.ellenjovin.com/ Over weight people tend to chew their food differently than people who are skinny. Listen as I explain why and how chewing food differently might help you lose weight. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chewing-more-helps-people-eat-less-study-says/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! With Bambee, get access to your own dedicated HR Manager starting at just $99 per month! Go to https://Bambee.com RIGHT NOW and type in Something You Should Know under PODCASTwhen you sign up - it’ll really help the show! Start hiring NOW with a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to upgrade your job post at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING Offer good for a limited time. Redeem your rewards for cash in any amount, at any time, with Discover Card! Learn more at https://Discover.com/RedeemRewards https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you own or rent your home?

0:02.9

Sure you do, and I bet it can be hard work.

0:06.1

You know it's easy.

0:07.7

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0:09.8

Geico makes it easy to bundle your homeowners or renters insurance along with your auto

0:15.0

policy.

0:16.2

It's a good thing too because you already have so much to do around your home.

0:21.2

Go to Geico.com.

0:23.1

Get a quote and see how much you could save.

0:25.8

It's Geico Easy.

0:27.5

Visit Geico.com today.

0:30.1

That's Geico.com.

0:31.6

Today on Something You Should Know, simple ways to reduce the number of emails you get every

0:40.4

day.

0:41.4

Then, how friendship works, why we meet friends and why some friends come and go.

0:47.0

It's absolutely normal to go through these breakups with friends and actually every

0:51.7

seven years we lose about half of our friends.

0:54.3

Interestingly, also about half of our friends don't consider us their friends.

0:58.5

Also, an interesting connection between weight gain and how you chew your food.

1:04.0

And some common questions and answers about English, how we speak it and how we say it.

1:10.1

I get asked a lot about effect and effect.

1:14.0

And so usually the one with the E is a noun and the one with an A is a verb.

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